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Moment Hero Liverpool fans try to prevent the driver in the football parade from plowing in crowds

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This is the moment when Liverpool -fans desperately intervened to try to stop a driver who plowed in the crowd with their plowed Premier League Victory Parade.

Almost 50 people were injured after a car in a group of nearly a million supporters who had gathered in the city center yesterday – with four still seriously ill in the hospital.

Images of Water Street – where the chaos unfolded – shows fans around a Ford Galaxy and shout “What are you doing?” And ‘Get out of the car’ to the man behind the wheel.

After the vehicle is briefly colored forward, the vehicle then turns through the tightly packed crowd before it rises with his horn.

Witnesses claimed that the car accelerated, waved and merged the pavement before ‘All Hell broke loose’ while it rammed 200 meters through the crowd – people ‘flying in all directions’.

A 53-year-old white British man from the Liverpool area was arrested, the Merseyside police confirmed.

The Parade started in Allerton Maze south of the city before he started on a 10 -mileage route for three and a half hours with a final at the strand in the city center.

The bus had only recently been passed on Water Street, about a mile before the end point of the parade, before the rams took place.

Images of Water Street - where the chaos unfolded - shows fans around a Ford Galaxy and shout
Images of Water Street - where the chaos unfolded - shows fans around a Ford Galaxy and shout

Images of Water Street – where the chaos unfolded – shows fans around a Ford Galaxy and shout “What are you doing?” While it sticks back and forth

Later images show the car that enters pedestrians and almost 50 injures

Later images show the car that enters pedestrians and almost 50 injures

A 53-year-old white British man from Liverpool was arrested by the police

A 53-year-old white British man from Liverpool was arrested by the police

Other images of the incident, which circulated online, seemed to show that the car was accelerated while it was threw in pedestrians on both sides of the street, passed a hooters, with people who were beaten on the floor of the windshield, fell on the floor and shot out of the way to prevent damage.

One spectator, Matthew O’Carroll, 28, from Runcorn, saw the car approaching the top of Water Street.

He said the vehicle went past a parked police van with a ‘decent’ speed and that the driver squeaked as he went through the crowd.

In the meantime, witness Mike Maddra described how the ‘car turns left, mounted paving, comes towards us and runs to the buildings’.

He said: “We came out of the way and it was accelerated.”

Maddra said he thought he had touched two people.

Social media video also showed that angry fans came to work on the vehicle, while it came to a halt and Windows broke before the police intervened.

Harry Rashid, 48, from Solihul, said you could hear the bumps if the driver rammed spectators.

The scene of where the car was plowed into crowds in Water Street can be seen this morning

The scene of where the car was plowed into crowds in Water Street can be seen this morning

He described how crowds started to break the car windows, so that the vehicle collapses for about 10 seconds before he accelerated and hit more people.

Witnesses told the Guardian that the entire test lasted 20-30 seconds and the first victim was thrown in ‘about 20 feet’ in the air.

Dan Ogunshakin, an off-Duty BBC reporter who attended the parade, the public broadcaster told him that he saw people hit the car before he turned and “then suddenly accelerated it”, directly to the surrounding crowd.

“What had once been an atmosphere of celebration and joy and happiness suddenly turned into fear and fear and disbelief,” he said.

The police said that the car eventually stopped on stage and that a man was held.

Cole later described how police officers left a ‘team’ of armed police vehicles with guns and medical packages and started running on stage.

Daniel Jones, 28, told the Sun -newspaper that the police stopped people who ‘broken’ the car.

“They tore out the register plate,” he said. “The rear window was broken when the (driver) was still in it.”

Jack Trotter (photo) was hit by the driver on Water Street, shortly after 6 pm. He had celebrated the title win of his team during the club's victory parade

Jack Trotter (photo) was hit by the driver on Water Street, shortly after 6 pm. He had celebrated the title win of his team during the club’s victory parade

A large forensic tent protected the scene of the crash this morning when the police continued to gather evidence

A large forensic tent protected the scene of the crash this morning when the police continued to gather evidence

Twenty -seven people were taken to the hospital and another 20 were treated on the spot.

Nick Searle, Chief Fire Officer of Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service, said that four people who were trapped under the car, including a child, were saved by firefighters.

At a press conference, MerseSide Police Assistant -Head Commissioner Jenny Sims said that the ‘horrible incident’ was not treated as terrorism.

Liverpool Echo Reporter Paddy Edrich said that the local Italian restaurant Riva was used as an improvised triage center.

‘People in Riva are treated by paramedics. Some have connections around their heads and limbs, “he said in a post on X.

“Employees in the restaurant seem to offer liquids to those who are being treated and the emergency services.”

Other victims were seen who were taken to nearby hospitals by ambulance.

A serious presence on the emergency services then remained in place, with police cars, fire engines and ambulances that stayed on the street.

Shown: the man who drove the car in Liverpool

Shown: the man who drove the car in Liverpool

A large blue tent was founded on Water Street, parked with two fire engines.

In a statement, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said: “The scenes in Liverpool are terrible – my thoughts are with all those wounded or affected.”

He added later: ‘Tonight I spoke with Steve Rotheram about the terrible events in Liverpool and the remarkable courage of the police and other emergency services.

‘They support and take care of those who are injured in these terrible events.

‘Everyone, especially children, should be able to celebrate their heroes without this horror.

‘The city has a long and proud history of gathering through difficult times.

“Liverpool stands together and the entire country is at Liverpool.”

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